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Daring Bakers September 2009 Challenge: Puff Pastry & Vols Au Vent
The September 2009 Daring Bakers' Challenge has been chosen by Steph of a whisk and a spoon. For the recipe, click here.
Oh boy, puff pastry. I almost chickened out and then reminded myself that making things I would never make on my own was why I joined Daring Bakers in the first place.
Puff pastry involves wrapping a block of butter in a casing of dough, and then you roll it out, fold it in thirds, turn it, roll it out again, and so on until you have hundreds of thin layers of butter and dough. If done properly, the pastry puffs dramatically as the moisture in butter turns to steam in the oven and pushes up all those layers into a crisp, tender, delectable symphony of texture and flavor.
I watched the video of Michel Richards making puff pastry several times, so I would know how thick the pounded butter should be and how to make the turns. I read on another website that the dough and butter should be about the same temperature and consistency. I already knew that the dough should be worked on a cold surface like granite or marble. Another tip was to not use the fan in the convection oven or you'd get slinky-shaped vol au vents.
But before I got to the oven part, I needed to get through making the puff pastry.
The pastry making started out okay.
I made the dough in the food processor, shaped it into a ball, slashed it on top in tic-tac-toe pattern, and put it in the fridge to rest. Check.
I pounded out the cold butter, making sure it was not too thin, probably around 1/2" to 3/4" thick. No problem.
I encased the butter in the dough and did the first turn. Nothing was oozing, and the rolling was easy. Cool.
I started gaining confidence.
At turn four, I noticed the counter was wet. At first, I thought some liquid got on the countertop, but it was actually butter. The butter was coming out of small rips in the outer layer of dough. Maybe I didn't have enough flour on the countertop when rolling, and the dough started adhering to the surface and breaking open. Or could this be what the recipe meant by "oozing"? Whether ripping or oozing, one thing was for sure: trying to roll the dough out when it was in this condition only exacerbated the problem.
I patted down the rips with flour, wrapped it in plastic, and stuck it in the fridge for one hour.
When I brought it out to make the final two turns, the oozing was gone.
When I cut the vols au vent as directed and popped them in the oven, they puffed! They puffed unevenly, but I am satisfied with my first try. The vol au vent is pictured here with some coq au vin made by my 11 yr. old Christina.
The puff pastry can also be used in sweet applications and can be frozen for another time.
My conclusion from this challenge is that puff pastry wasn't as hard as I thought. I'm glad I completed the challenge.
P.S. A few hours later, I took some scraps, rolled them out and made mini-puff pastries. I split them in two, added a couple slices of banana and a drizzle of chocolate for a lovely dessert bite. Yum!
What made it even better is my husband found our long-lost camera tripod. Finally, no more hand shake in my photos!
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